1624 in science
# 1624 in science

The year 1624 in science and technology involved some significant events.

## Astronomy

* Jakob Bartsch's star atlas is the first to depict six recently discovered constellations, including Camelopardalis around the North Star.

## Exploration

* July or August – Portuguese Jesuit priest António de Andrade becomes the first European to enter Tibet.

## Mathematics

* Henry Briggs publishes Arithmetica Logarithmica.
* Edmund Gunter produces The description and use of sector, the cross-staffe, and other instruments for such as are studious of mathematical practise, notable for being published in English as a practical text.

## Medicine

* Adriaan van den Spiegel, in De semitertiana libri quatuor, gives the first comprehensive description of malaria.

## Technology

* 12 September – Cornelis Drebbel demonstrates his third submarine on the River Thames in England.
* The 15-arch Berwick Bridge in Great Britain by James Burrell is opened to traffic.

## Events

* 25 May – The Parliament of England passes the Statute of Monopolies, requiring patent monopolies to show novelty.
* The Parlement of France passes a decree forbidding criticism of Aristotle on pain of death.

## Births

* 10 September – Thomas Sydenham, English physician, the first person to recommend the use of quinine for relieving symptoms of malaria (died 1689)

## Deaths

* Giuseppe Biancani, Italian astronomer (born 1566)
* 5 December – Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist and physician who developed an important early plant classification system (born 1560)
* 26 December – Simon Marius, German astronomer (born 1573)
